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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mxchara@seattle.pink ("Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen") wrote:
Now I'm going to be a bit charitable here.
While I do think that it's a scandal there's no general understanding of the sciences in U.S. #media and #journalism—and I'll go so far as to suspect that a number of top-level journalists are functionally illiterate, only able to communicate in slogans and jargon and simple charts—it should not have been necessary for @arstechnica or @newscientist or @TheEconomist or ANY big news outlet to be scientists in order to notice that Elon Musk wasn't what his marketing campaign said he was.
(cont'd)